Austria’s producer prices rose 2.8% year-on-year in May 2026, accelerating from an upwardly revised 2.0% increase in April and reaching their highest growth rate since April 2023. The advance was driven primarily by higher prices for intermediate goods (up 5.6% vs 4.0% in April), energy (2.7% vs 2.0%), and capital goods (1.0% vs 0.4%). By contrast, prices for consumer goods inched up just 0.1%, easing from a 0.6% gain in the previous month.
On a monthly basis, the producer price index rose 0.5% in May, slowing from an upwardly revised 1.0% increase in April. Price growth in basic metals (2.3%), chemicals and chemical products (3.7%), and motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers (1.2%) was partly offset by declines in electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (-0.8%) and in food products (-0.1%).
